Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.